Recap: The Battling Eevee Brothers

With the release of #PokémonLetsGo for the Nintendo Switch drawing ever closer, I present my look at "The Battling Eevee Brothers!" I have been wanting to talk about this episode for a long time. Let's open it up!

We open on everyone passing through Stone Town, as they find an Eevee that belongs to someone at 3-14. They go to the address, and a party is being held at a massive mansion!

The Eevee belongs to a little boy named Mikey; whose brothers Rainer, Pyro and Sparky are trying to pressure him into evolving to one of the original three "Eevee-lutions:" Vaporeon, Flareon and Jolteon!

They also encourage Ash and Brock to use stones on their Pokémon, but they decline, saying they want to let their Pokémon evolve on their own terms. I agree with that.

Misty then tries a different approach: encourage Mikey to talk about the situation with his brothers! Team Rocket is, of course, after the evolutionary stones and the Pokémon; crashing the party to make off with them, even taking all the food!

They did not take the balloon, instead hauling them off in a jeep, wanting to evolve Eevee themselves! Misty's Horsea then leaves behind a trail of ink to lead everyone to rescue their Pokémon! They won't let Eevee go, not even when Misty calls Jessie an "old bat!" This severely angers Jessie, to the point where she learns Flamethrower!

Everyone takes on Team Rocket in battle, and Mikey decides to prove his worth! He engages Team Rocket in battle and sends them blasting off!

Mikey is then able to tell his brothers he wants to be an Eevee trainer, which pleases his brothers. As Team Rocket noshes on cheap canned food, everyone else toasts to Mikey's success; and we close on a picture being taken to commemorate the occasion.

"The Battling Eevee Brothers" is a pretty fun episode for its time, and it remains so many years later. It's amazing how much simpler everything was then, and #PokémonLet'sGo looks to rekindle that feeling. The animation is also quite nice, especially on the battle in the second half of the episode. There's not much to say this time, just a nice little adventure that I look forward to viewing every time; so I definitely recommend watching it. There will be plenty of stuff coming for my last Halloween, so look forward to it. See you, space cowboy.